There’s no doubt that racism is a problem within football and comes in many forms.
Within the Scottish football bubble Show Racism The Red Card pops up once or twice a year and pats itself on the back as they continue to attract grants for educational programmes that appear to have little impact.
White racism seems to be ignored with barely a cheap about the weekly anti-Irish racism heard in Scottish football.
It seems that they are used to it, know what to expect and worst of all if they don’t like it they can always go back home.
Yesterday in their regular bizarre twists Radio Scotland decided to turn the clock back to 1987 and the racism that greeted Mark Walters debut for Rangers (IL) at Celtic Park.
It was a low point in the history of the Celtic support, challenged afterwards in fanzines and never repeated.
As I have said before, @BBCSportsound is rapidly heading down the road where @ClydeSSB can actually be seen as an alternative broadcast which I would have thought impossible as the quality of the latter has been appalling for decades. Hence all the podcasts on the go. https://t.co/qaJuCj5KwH
— Brogan Rogan Trevino (@BroganRoganTrev) December 29, 2017
The same people who run a mile from the Offshore Game report on LNS deception and UEFA licence deception which they enabled by turning a blind eye.
— Auldheid (@Auldheid) December 28, 2017
Pre match on Saturday morning BBC Scotland will have a special on Neil Lennon and why he should compensate the guys who sent him bombs in the post because they didn’t go off. Surely he owes them the postage.
— unwittinglymine (@unwittinglymine) December 28, 2017
Also on BBC Scotland this week, an interview with Gary Stevens on that infamous cup final in 89. “It was our throw in and I still lose sleep over it”.
The next night we have a poppy wearing special where we highlight all the times a minute silence has been disrupted by coughing.— unwittinglymine (@unwittinglymine) December 28, 2017
Racism has been a sore in Scottish football for decades, prior to 1987 and up to this season. Exposing racism is positive, but picking one incident from 30 years ago is baffling at best and is agenda-driven at worst.
— The Stauner of 69 (@SteinReigned) December 28, 2017
Just like their decisions to fly off to Holland to interview Ronald de Boer and Michael Mols the deflection process of BBC Scotland is easy to unravel.
Anti-Irish racism is never touched by the state broadcaster, the racism that Scott Sinclair and Moussa Dembele suffer at Ibrox is covered in the same depth as the supporter attacks on Scott Brown and large sized batteries thrown at Leigh Griffiths.
The more that BBC Scotland try to deflect and avoid the real governance issues facing Scottish football the more they become a subject of ridicule with their agenda crystal clear.